With Our Fighting Men
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- University teachers and students of WWI history who need primary sources in English
- In-depth readers interested in wartime documentary writing and soldiers' experience
- Researchers who need free public-domain historical material for projects or writing
Not a good fit for
- Beginners seeking a systematic general history or introductory overview of WWI
- General readers with limited English who need a Chinese translation
- Readers who prefer modern publications with illustrations and detailed annotation
Reading tips
- Review a WWI timeline and the background of relevant campaigns before starting the text to lower the barrier to understanding.
- Read with maps and order-of-battle material at hand, noting names, places and events as you go.
- Summarise each chapter in notes for easier retrieval and citation later.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
William E. Sellers is an author about whom little is known; his nationality and dates of birth and death cannot be confirmed, and the available public information is limited, making it difficult to reconstruct a full account of his life. Two of his works are currently held in the collection: From Aldershot to Pretoria and With Our Fighting Men. Judging from the titles and subject matter of these two books, Sellers focused on military topics, dealing with troop movements, battlefield observations and the lives of soldiers, and his writing carries a clear documentary and reportorial character. Works of this kind are usually based on first-hand experience or observations made while accompanying troops; their language is plain and they emphasize a sense of immediacy, offering readers a first-hand narrative of military operations and army life in the relevant period. Although records of the author's own background, career and full body of work remain insufficient, the two surviving works alone show that he cared about the circumstances of ordinary soldiers and was skilled at presenting the details of marches and combat in narrative form. For readers studying documentary writing on military subjects, Sellers's works still retain a certain reference value and historical significance.
